Droplet manipulation with light on optoelectrowetting device

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 133-138

  Chiou, Pei Yu ^a   Chang, Zahao ^a   Wu, Ming C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrowetting; Laboratory on a chip; Optoelec trowetting (OEW); Optoelectrowetting (OEW); Surface tension

Indexed keywords

DROPS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

ELECTROWETTING; OPTOELECTROWETTING;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 40449116746     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2007.904336     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. A. J. Tüds, G. A. J. Besselink, and R. B. M. Schasfoort, "Trends in miniaturized total analysis systems for point-of-care testing in clinical chemistry," Lab Chip, vol. 1, pp. 83-95, 2001.
2. C. K. Fredrickson and Z. H. Fan, "Macro-to-micro interfaces for microfluidic devices," Lab Chip, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 526-533, 2004.
3. J. R. Millman, K. H. Bhatt, B. G. Prevo, and O. D. Velev, "Anisotropic particle synthesis in dielectrophoretically controlled microdroplet reactors," Nat. Mater., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 98-102, Jan. 2005.
4. P. R. C. Gascoyne, J. V. Vykoukal, J. A. Schwartz, T. J. Anderson, D. M. Vykoukal, K. W. Current, C. McConaghy, F. F. Beckera, and C. Andrewsd, "Dielectrophoresis-based programmable fluidic processors," Lab Chip vol. 4, pp. 299-309, 2004.
5. A. R. Wheeler, H. Moon, C. A. Bird, R. R. O. Loo, C. J. Kim, J. A. Loo, and R. L. Garrell, "Digital microfluidics with in-line sample purification for proteomics analyses with MALDI-MS," Anal. Chem., vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 534-540, 2005.
6. O. D. Velev, B. G. Prevo, and K. H. Bhatt, "On-chip manipulation of free droplets," Nature, vol. 426, no. 6966, pp. 515-516, Dec. 2003.
7. J. A. Schwartz, J. V. Vykoukal, and P. R. C. Gascoyne, "Droplet-based chemistry on a programmable micro-chip," Lab Chip, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 11-17, Feb. 2004.
8. M. Vallet, B. Berge, and L. Vovelle, "Electrowetting of water and aqueous solutions on poly(ethylene terephthalate) insulating films," Polymer, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 2465-2470, 1996.
9. M. G. Pollack, R. B. Fair, and A. D. Shenderov, "Electrowetting-based actuation of liquid droplets for microfluidic applications," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 77, no. 11, pp. 1725-1726, Sep. 2000.
10. J. Lee, H. Moon, J. Fowler, T. Schoellhammer, and C. J. Kim, "Electrowetting and electrowetting-on-dielectric for microscale liquid handling," Sens. Actuators A, Phys., vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 259-268, Jan. 2002.
11. S. K. Cho, H. J. Moon, and C. J. Kim, "Creating, transporting, cutting, and merging liquid droplets by electrowetting-based actuation for digital microfluidic circuits," J. Microelectromech. Syst., vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 70-80, 2003.
12. J. Fowler, H. Moon, and C. J. Kim, "Enhancement of mixing by droplet-based microfluidics," in Proc. 15th IEEE Int. Conf. Micro Electro Mech. Syst., 2004, pp. 97-100.
13. A. R. Wheeler, H. Moon, C. J. Kim, J. A. Loo, and R. L. Garrell, "Electrowetting-based microfluidics for analysis of peptides and proteins by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry," Anal. Chem., vol. 76, no. 16, pp. 4833-4838, 2004.
14. V. Srinivasan, V. K. Pamula, and R. B. Fair, "Droplet-based microfluidic lab-on-a-chip for glucose detection," Anal. Chim. Acta vol. 507, no. 1, pp. 145-150, Apr. 2004.
15. J. Gong, S. K. Fan, and C. J. Kim, "Portable digital microfluidics platform with active but disposable Lab-On-Chip," in Proc. 17th IEEE Int. Conf. Micro Electro Mech. Syst., 2004, pp. 355-358.
16. S. K. Fan, C. Hashi, and C. J. Kim, "Manipulation of multiple droplets on N * M grid by cross-reference EWOD driving scheme and pressure-contact packaging," in Proc. 16th IEEE Annu. Int. Conf. Micro Electro Mech. Syst., 2003, pp. 694-697.
17. P. Y. Chiou, H. Moon, H. Toshiyoshi, C. J. Kim, and M. C. Wu, "Light actuation of liquid by optoelectrowetting," Sens. Actuators A, Phys. vol. 104, no. 3, pp. 222-228, May 2003.